Nuclear Disarmament

Supporters of nuclear disarmament wish to abolish nuclear weapons for a variety of reasons including but not limited to:

-to end a source of power behing the US's imperialism, and stopping cold war revival

- to stop the production of radioactive nuclear waste

-to shut down war profiteering corporations and their blatant disregard of morality with profit motivations

-to prevent deaths from the use of nuclear warheads and radioactive waste in munitions

-to stop the enviornmental damages that nuke labs and test sites create

Some important treaties and laws in nuclear ablolishment history (jacked from wikipedia):

Key Treaties

• Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) - 1963: Prohibited all testing of nuclear weapons except underground.
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) - signed 1968, came into force 1970: An international treaty (currently with 189 member states) to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. The treaty has three main pillars: nonproliferation, disarmament, and the right to peacefully use nuclear technology.
• Interim Agreement on Offensive Arms (SALT I) - 1972: The Soviet Union and the United States agreed to a freeze in the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) that they would deploy.
• Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) - 1972: The United States and Soviet Union could deploy ABM interceptors at two sites, each with up to 100 ground-based launchers for ABM interceptor missiles. In a 1974 Protocol, the US and Soviet Union agreed to only deploy an ABM system to one site.
• Strategic Arms Limitation Treat (SALT II) - 1979: Replacing SALT I, SALT II limited both the Soviet Union and the United States to an equal number of ICBM launchers, SLBM launchers, and heavy bombers. Also placed limits on Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles (MIRVS).
• Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) - 1987: Created a global ban on short- and long-range nuclear weapons systems, as well as an intrusive verification regime.
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) - signed 1991, ratified 1994: Limited long-range nuclear forces in the United States and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union to 6,000 attributed warheads on 1,600 ballistic missiles and bombers.
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II) - signed 1993, never put into force: START II was a bilateral agreement between the US and Russia which attempted to commit each side to deploy no more than 3,000 to 3,500 warheads by December 2007 and also included a prohibition against deploying multiple independent reentry vehicles (MIRVs) on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)
• Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT or Moscow Treaty) - signed 2002, into force 2003: A very loose treaty that is often criticized by arms control advocates for its ambiguity and lack of depth, Russia and the United States agreed to reduce their "strategic nuclear warheads" (a term that remain undefined in the treaty) to between 1,700 and 2,200 by 2012.
• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) - signed 1996, not yet in force: The CTBT is an international treaty (currently with 177 state signatures) that bans all nuclear explosions in all environments. While the treaty is not in force, Russia has not tested a nuclear weapons since 1990 and the United States has not since 1992.

 Some of the many nuclear abolitionist organizations include:

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons,  Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

CA/Western organizations centered around watching individual labs and labs managed by the University of California system include: Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Enviornment (TRI-Valley CARES), The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, The Department of Energy Labs Oversight Comittee (DOELOC), and the Los Alamos Study Group.